Noah Gordon Livres

Londres, en l'an 1021. Orphelin, Rob J. Cole, neuf ans, est recueilli par un barbier-chirurgien et devient son apprenti. Ensemble, ils sillonnent l'Angleterre. C'est une epoque ou l'on brule les sorcieres, ou la vie est dure et la mort vite venue... Mais Rob n'a qu'une idee en tete: devenir medecin et il a un terrible don: il sent si un patient va mourir lorsqu'il lui prend la main. Ayant appris qu'on peut etudier serieusement la medecine chez les Arabes, Rob n'hesite pas et, a vingt ans, le voila qui traverse l'Europe pour gagner l'Orient. Comme chez les Arabes on n'admet pas les chretiens, il va se faire passer pour juif... "Le Medecin d'Ispahan" est un formidable roman d'aventures. C'est l'histoire d'un homme enflamme d'une passion devorante: vaincre la mort et la maladie, guerir. Pour atteindre son but, il fuira la brutalite et l'ignorance de l'Angleterre du xie siecle, traversera tout un continent pour decouvrir la cour de Perse, le monde etonnant des universites arabes et la chaude sensualite des palais d'Ispahan. Et, dominant tout cela, "Le Medecin d'Ispahan" est la magnifique histoire d'un amour que rien ne parvient a detruire. "

Josep Alvarez, fils cadet, ne peut hériter de la bodega familiale et s'engage dans l'armée. Propulsé dans les guerres d'Espagne du XIXe siècle, il rêve de créer son propre vin dans sa propre bodega.

En 1839, un jeune médecin idéaliste, Rob J. Cole, s'est installé dans l'Illinois, aux limites du territoire des Indiens Sauks, persécutés, et à qui il vient en aide. Il s'éprend de l'Indienne Makwa, que sa condition de shaman voue à la chasteté. C'est elle qui donnera ce surnom au fils que Rob a d'une autre femme. Puis elle sera sauvagement assassinée.Rob, mobilisé durant la guerre de Sécession, est contraint de partir et ne reviendra pas. Malgré le handicap de sa surdité, son fils Shaman entreprend des études de médecine afin de poursuivre l'oeuvre de son père. C'est à lui qu'il incombera de venger la mort de Makwa.En même temps que l'épopée d'une médecine héroïque et de ses progrès, le romancier du Médecin d'Ispahan nous donne ici une extraordinaire saga de l'Amérique au temps des pionniers.

" Un de vos ancêtres a taillé ce diamant. Un autre l'a monté sur la mitre de Grégoire pour notre Sainte Mère l'Eglise. Maintenant nous aimerions que vous suiviez cette tradition et nous rendiez service. Soyez notre mandataire. Aidez-nous à récupérer ce qui nous appartient. " L'Œil d'Alexandre. Un merveilleux diamant jaune, une pierre unique qui fit jadis partie du trésor du Temple de Jérusalem. Les archéologues viennent de faire une découverte capitale : des rouleaux de cuivre sur lesquels ont été gravées les indications codées menant au trésor caché par les Juifs. Harry Hopeman, descendant d'une longue lignée de diamantaires, va devoir récupérer la gemme légendaire, à la demande de l'Eglise catholique, à laquelle elle avait été dérobée il y a des siècles. Avec l'aide de la mystérieuse Tamar Strauss, conservatrice au musée de Jérusalem, Harry parcourt les sites archéologiques pour entrer en contact avec l'homme qui détient le diamant et résoudre l'énigme des rouleaux. Un livre dépaysant et palpitant, entre roman historique et récit d'aventures.

Set in the small village of Santa Eulalia, Josep Alvarez, a passionate young man, dreams of a future in grape cultivation and marrying Teresa Gallego, despite being the second son destined to lose his family's vineyard to his brother. His simple life is disrupted when an assassination plot against a political leader in Madrid draws in unsuspecting farm workers, intertwining their fates with a web of intrigue and danger. The story explores themes of ambition, love, and the impact of political turmoil on ordinary lives.

In 1492 Spain is held in firm grip by the inquisition. Per decree an announcement is made that all Jews have to leave the country. A large exodus starts. 15-year-old Yonah is left on his own after his brother and father are killed. Instead of converting to Christianity or fleeing he decides to stand firm by his faith and to fight for himself Three years later Yonah is keen to settle somewhere. In Granada he finally meets people of his own faith again - the family of the silk merchant Saadi, who still practice Judaism in secrecy. Yonah's love for Ines, the young daughter of the family, however remains unfulfilled. Yonah moves on to Gibraltar where he starts an apprenticeship with Fierro, an armourer. Fierro has to flee from the inquisition himself and asks his young apprentice to accompany him on his journey to the North and when he finally arrives in Saragossa meeting Nuno seals his fate. Yonah immediately senses that medicine is his true calling...

A drama of love and identity, of compassion and cruelty, involving a Brooklyn-born rabbi and a Christian minister's daughter who must learn to cope with the complications of an unorthodox life in a world where Jews and Christians don't fall in love. By the author of The Physician and Shaman.

With Choices, Noah Gordon brings to a close his great trilogy spanning the generations of the Cole medical dynasty. Beginning with the legendary 11th-century doctor Robert J. Cole, each eldest son has borne the same name and middle initial, and some have possessed the uncanny "sixth sense" known as The Gift: the terrible and instinctive knowledge that someone is about to die. In Choices, it emerges again in the present, but this time in a daughter, Roberta Jeanne d'Arc Cole, known as R.J. The first time R.J. defies her beloved father is when she is born a female; the second, when she chooses to study law rather than medicine. Yet destiny is to overtake her when R.J. realizes that she has inherited The Gift. As she holds the hands of a sick man, R.J. feels a dreadful certainty that he is going to die; tragically, he is her own lover. Struggling with her grief, R.J. knows she must bow to the inevitable and become a physician. But her life changes when she moves to a small-town practice and is faced with a terrible dilemma -- and an important choice to make.

From the author of The Physician and Shaman now comes this story of a young man-the grapes he grows, the wine he fashions, the women he loves, and his struggle against an evil that seeks to destroy him. Already an international bestseller. Josep Alvarez is a young man in the tiny grape-growing village of Santa Eulalia, in northern Spain, where his father grows black grapes that are turned into cheap vinegar. Joseph loves the agricultural life, but he is the second son, and his father's vineyard will be inherited by his brother Donat, the firstborn. Josep needs to keep his hands in the soil. He yearns for a job growing grapes and for an opportunity to marry Teresa Gallego. In Madrid, an assassination plot, conceived against the political leader of Spain by men of wealth and power, creates a storm of intrigue that sucks into its vortex a group of innocent young farm workers in Santa Eulalia. How Josep's life is changed drastically by these events, and how, ironically, they gradually turn him into an inspired vintner with an evolving vision of life, is the fascinating story of The Winemaker. Conciseness is Gordon's greatest skill. He unfolds a plot branching out far, until a panoramic view of a world past emerges-as vivid as the great realistical novels of the 19th century. -Welt am Sonntag (Germany) So suspenseful that you cannot put it down. -Leipziger Volkszeitung (Germany) Gordon's healthy obsession with research, his ability to create extremely realistic characters, and that innate literary talent of his for which there's no explanation are certain to make this book another best seller. -Elle Magazine (Spain) A wonderful book. Enjoy it with a good bottle of wine. -Bucher (Germany) Noah Gordon has had outstanding international success. The Physician, soon to be a motion picture, has been called a modern classic, and booksellers at the Madrid Book Fair voted it one of the 10 best-loved books of all time. Shaman was awarded the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for historical fiction. Both of these books, and five of the author's other novels-The Rabbi, The Death Committee, The Jerusalem Diamond, Matters of Choice, and The Winemaker-are published in digital formats by Barcelona eBooks and Open Road Integrated Media. Gordon's novel, The Last Jew, will also be published digitally in the near future. He lives outside of Boston with his wife, Lorraine Gordon

Michael Kind was a young American Jewish, but he was also a man. A man who couldn't help that his heart led him to Leslie, a beautiful Christian. He'd already become a rabbi when he met Leslie, the minister's daughter. First and foremost, Michael was a man -- a courageous man with strong ideals and feelings, a passionate man deeply in love with Leslie. Leslie is also fell in love with Michael, but she must convert to Judaism to marry him. Defying parents and teachers, they dare to love one another and tried to forge a life, in this sweeping drama of love and identity, compassion and crueltly, a searing tale of one man and one woman who must learn to cope with the complications of an unorthodox life in a world that will not accept them, in a world where rabbis and non-Jews do not fall in love -- let alone marry....